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Swindale Beck is a river in
Swindale Beck (3)
in the ''Old Cumbria Gazetteer'' website
Swindale Beck (Brough)
in Newcastle University's ''CoCurate'' website Rivers of Cumbria Beck watercourses {{England-river-stub
Swindale Beck is a river in Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...
, England, near Appleby-in-Westmorland
Appleby-in-Westmorland is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, with a population of 3,048 at the 2011 Census. Crossed by the River Eden, Appleby is the county town of the historic county of Westmorland. ...
, which for much of its length forms the boundary between the civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
es of Helbeck to the west and Stainmore
Stainmore is a remote geographic area in the Pennines on the border of Cumbria, County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name is used for a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness of Cumbria, England, including the villages of North Stainmor ...
to the east, in the Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Cumbria, England. The economy is mainly focused on tourism around both the Lake District and Cumbria Coast, shipbuilding and the Royal Port of Barrow, Royal ...
unitary authority area. It is formed at Swindale Head, about west of the B6276 road from Brough to Middleton-in-Teesdale
Middleton-in-Teesdale is a market town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is in Teesdale, on the River Tees's north banks, and surrounded by the North Pennines. The town is between Eggleston and Newbiggin, Teesdale, Newbiggin, a few ...
, at the confluence of Tarn Gill and Coalgill Syke, and flows through Brough and into the River Eden at Great Musgrave.
At Brough, it is crossed by a grade II listed Bridge.
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External links
Swindale Beck (3)
in the ''Old Cumbria Gazetteer'' website
Swindale Beck (Brough)
in Newcastle University's ''CoCurate'' website Rivers of Cumbria Beck watercourses {{England-river-stub